Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Mold on furniture.

Mold grows in the furniture is always unwanted. The mold will
ruin the furniture performance; more than that it also could affect the human
health, the dust from mold can be detrimental the breathing if it is inhaled. The fact we often find mold can grow at many objects. In the houses, the mold can
be found at the floor, matt, door, furniture, and other household products. In the
furniture, mold can be growing at the finish or unfinished surface.Mold can be seen as small spots with dusty
surface or visible as a mushroom with many strands.

Mold is ignited when the spores of the
mold are fallen on the surface of objects or media with the suitable condition for
its growth. The mold on furniture surface usually will not damage the furniture
and relatively easy to be cleaned at the time he starts to grow. However if it
is not handled properly, he can spread to become big area.
The mold also can go into the wood and be more
difficult to be cleaned and can cause more serious problem. Whatever it’s looked the
mold at the furniture is a problem that needs to be cleaned off.

mold at the finished wood

Here are some tips to prevent the mold
problem at the furniture.

Keep the room to be dry.

The fungi require the special environmental conditions to
grow and thrive. The wet and moist room is the ideal condition for the mold to
grow and life. Then the best way to avoid the fungi is to keep
the room dry and clean. We better design the house to give enough air
circulation and ventilation to let the air and light flow at every space of the
room. The dry and clear room is always more healthy and unlike by the mold.Mop and dry the wet or damp place to
avoid the moist room.

If there is air conditioning installed
in the room, then make sure it works well. Do properly cleaning and maintenance
regularly to make sure it is always clean and healthy. The dirty air
conditioning could become the mediaforfungiand bacteria
to grow.

Clean the surface of furniture regularly.

Clean the surface of the furniture, flooring and household
regularly. The floor can be cleaned by by sweepingormopping regularly. Furniture and
the household can be cleaned using the duster or dry cloth
or cleaning liquid. Or we can sue the vacuum cleaner to suck
and clean off the dust in the room. The regularly cleaning schedule will
minimize the fungal attacked. Any spores or organisms that fell and stuck on
the surface will be removed before it had time to grow. Regular cleaning is
also meaning the regular check to the condition of our home furnishings. It will let us to find any problems when it starts ignited before they become big and become
serious problem.

How to clean surface that already has the mold problem.

The tips above are the way to prevent the growth of mold
in our home furnishings. Meanwhile, the mold that has already existed at the surface
of furniture or home furnishings is need different treatment. Here is the step to fix the furniture with the
mold problem.

Clean the mold.

First thing we need to clean and remove the mold from the
surface. We can use solvents that don’t solve the finishing layer such as:
mineral spirit or naphtha. The “cleaning liquid”, a special liquid that is
specially made to clean the coating also can be used.

Dampen a piece of cloth with mineral
spirits, naphtha or the “cleaning liquid”, then use the cloth to wipe off and
clean the mold. Make sure all the mold has wiped off and we got the clean surface.

If we the mold cannot be removed with
this way, then we may need to rub it little bit. Use steel wool and rub the
surface to erase the mold. Do the rubbing lightly to avoid the line or the different
sheen at the surface.

Re coating.

If we can get the clean and even surface
finish with the first step then we don’t need to do the next step. What we need to do
is to maintain the room and furniture to be dry and clean. But if we found that we
cannot get clean and even finish surface with the first step, then we need to re coat
the finish. Sand the surface with sandpaper or steel wool. Make sure all the mold
are cleaned off from the surface.Then continue
scuff sand for overall finish to prepare the top coating application. Then apply 1 layer or 2 layer
wet coat at the finish. More explanation about the re coating can be viewed at our previous post: the refinishing without strip off the finish

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